Abdul Baset al-Sarout

Abdul Baset al-Sarout (2 January 1992-8 June 2019) was a Jaysh al-Izza commander during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Abdul Baset al-Sarout was born in Homs, Homs Governorate, Syria on 2 January 1992, and he became known as a soccer star while playing as the goalkeeper for al-Karamah SC. When the Syrian Civil War broke out, he led demonstrations in his hometown of Homs, and all four of his brothers and his uncle were killed by security forces at the start of the uprising. During the Siege of Homs from 2011 to 2014, he became a Syrian rebel commander, and, after the disintegration of the Free Syrian Army, he became a commander of Jaysh al-Izza. In 2015, he considered joining ISIL due to its status as the only Syrian Opposition group capable of defeating the Syrian government, but he ultimately refused; nonetheless, the al-Nusra Front attacked his Jaysh al-Izza forces after claiming that he had pledged allegiance to ISIL. On 6 June 2019, he was mortally wounded by Syrian Arab Army artillery at Tell Malah village in northern Hama Governorate, and he died of his wounds in a Turkish hospital at Reyhanli.